Analyzing 2018 USTA NTRP year-end ratings - Distribution of players by level

Next in the sequence of analyzing the 2018 year-end ratings, we'll take a break of bump up/down percentages and look at how many players there are at each level.

Here are the number of players, men or women, with C ratings at each NTRP level.  I've included 2017 year-end counts as well for comparison.  The percentages on each bar are the percent of the total at that level.

This looks pretty much as you'd expect, the majority of players are at the 3.5 level, followed by 4.0, then 3.0.  It is interesting to see the counts for 2018 year-end slightly lower than 2018 though.  But analyzing declining participation in USTA League play is a topic for another day.

Here is the distribution for the women.

Similar shape, but after the 3.5 level there are more 3.0s than 4.0s, and even more 2.5s than 4.5s.

And for the men.

You can probably do the "subtraction" between the first two charts, but this clearly shows for the men, there are basically the same number of 3.5 and 4.0 men, and very close to the same number of 3.0s and 4.5s.

Stay tuned for more!